- [Woman] The ones that you guessed were 18 dollars,
were 88 dollars.
And the ones that I'm wearing right now,
are cheaper than that.
Are you surprised by this?
- Yes, I'm blown away.
(bright music)
- So this week we're going to be trying Spanx
as well as the cheaper versions of Spanx
that they sell in Targets and Kohl's.
Everyone knows about Spanx.
They cinch in your waist, give you those clean lines.
Whenever celebrities talk about wearing shapewear,
it's always Spanx brand.
But they're also really expensive,
which is great because they also make a lower end line,
called Assets.
I have the theory that the cheaper versions of Spanx
are probably just as good as the more expensive versions.
So we decided to try a bunch of different types of products.
I'm going to be wearing very skin tight dresses,
taking photos,
seeing if anyone will be able to tell the difference.
(bright music)
These are the cheaper Spanx shorts.
I feel like a mushroom wearing bike shorts.
They are already rolling down my back.
I don't know why it's doing this I secured it.
These are the cheaper Assets short.
They are the thickest fabric.
Here are the more expensive Spanx shorts.
They're slightly easier to get on
than any of the other shorts.
They're the light fabric you want,
but it doesn't roll down.
These look the same.
They're like the twins from The Shining.
These are the Spanx tights.
The weird thing about the tights is that I do feel flatter
even though I know I'm not flatter.
So these are the Assets.
They are 14 dollars.
I feel secure, it feels comfortable.
This is the Spanx body suit.
It is the most expensive thing I tried on.
This is the Assets bodysuit.
It's 60 dollars.
My body just looks the same.
Overall, I'd say my favorite thing
were the 14 dollar pair of tights.
Once I put everything on
and realized how similarly they felt,
I wondered if they even looked different.
We took a bunch of pictures of me
wearing the Spanx and the same dress
to see how they compared.
It wasn't much pushing everything in,
as it was just pushing everything up.
I had a rounder butt, but I also had a rounder tummy.
I have always assumed that more expensive Spanx
equals littler.
Okay, now I'm going to go ask some of my friends
if they think I'm wearing Spanx
and if I am wearing Spanx, how much it costs.
And I wearing Spanx in that?
- Are you wearing Spanx or not?
Fuck.
I've never looked at you this deeply before.
(laughing)
Can I see your butt?
- [Woman] Yeah.
Am I wearing Spanx right now?
- Yeah.
Your posture's changed.
I think these are like 15.
- [Woman] 15 bucks.
Am I wearing Spanx right now?
Yes or no?
- No.
Are you?
- No.
- This dress looks great.
- It does.
- I don't think you're wearing Spanx.
- When you're wearing them, do they hurt more,
the more expensive ones?
- [Woman] They feel about the same.
- Fuck, then what's the god damn difference?
- A lot of people struggled to figure out
whether or not I was wearing cheap or expensive Spanx.
Or Spanx at all.
You're gonna guess which of the group is the most expensive
and which is the least expensive.
- Most expensive being one, and then middle two,
least expensive three.
- [Woman] You think the one on the far left
is the most expensive.
The one in the middle is the middle expensive
and the one on the far right is the cheapest.
- Yes.
- The purpose of Spanx are to like suck you in right?
- Presumably.
- Right, presumably.
- It's kind of like sucking you in the most,
medium and the least.
- No that's not what I...
- I think you're overthinking this a little.
This feels like an eye examination, I love it.
Your butt looks really good in this one.
So I'm gonna say like this one is 60.
- So I think that the most expensive
is the photo on the far left.
The medium is one on the far right.
The cheapest is the one in the middle.
- How long did it take you to try on all these Spanx?
- Way too long.
- Can they all be evenly priced?
Is that an option?
- Do you think they're all evenly priced?
- All three photos look exactly the same to me.
- [Woman] You said that this one was the most expensive?
This one was the middle one
and this one was the least one.
This is 88 dollars.
This is 60 dollars.
And this is just underwear.
- What?
I don't see it.
- You looked at pictures of me in just my underwear
four times and you ascribe them with four different values.
- I should not be on the Price is Right, ever.
- One, I feel deceived, two, I feel a little dumb.
- Everyone should feel free to wear things
that make them feel better.
But I think that we've all been kind of conditioned
to believe that Spanx are just like this thing
that we need to look smaller and slimmer.
No one really notices.
I think wear what you want,
but don't feel like you need this
in order to be the best you.
Spanx do come with these great little butt holes
because having a big butt is in right now,
so we don't want to tuck those in too much.
(upbeat music)